Conlang Typology Survey (partial results)
| From: | Garrett Jones <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 4:20 |
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i only had time at the moment to compile some partial results. i did
morphological type, word order, and lexicon size.
I. morpho types:
a. combinations:
agg: 13
agg/fus: 4
agg/fus/poly: 1
agg/iso: 5
agg/poly: 1
fus: 13
fus/iso: 3
fus/poly: 1
iso: 6
poly: 2
poly/iso: 1
b. primary types:
agg: 24 (48.0%)
fus: 17 (34.0%)
iso: 6 (12.0%)
poly: 3 (6.0%)
> total: 50
c. allowed types:
agg: 24 (36.4%)
fus: 22 (33.3%)
iso: 14 (21.2%)
poly: 6 (9.1%)
> total: 66
II. word order:
a. combinations:
free: 5
OSV/free: 1
OSV/SOV: 1
SOV: 5
SOV/free: 2
SOV/OSV: 1
SVO: 19
SVO/free: 4
VOS/VSO: 1
VSO: 7
b. primary types:
SVO: 23 (56.1%)
SOV: 8 (19.5%)
VSO: 7 (17.1%)
OSV: 2 (4.9%)
VOS: 1 (2.4%)
OVS: 0 (0.0%)
> total: 41
c. allowed types:
SVO: 23 (41.1%)
free: 12 (21.4%)
SOV: 9 (16.1%)
VSO: 8 (14.3%)
OSV: 3 (5.4%)
VOS: 1 (1.8%)
OVS: 0 (0.0%)
> total: 56
III. number of lexical entries:
median = 448
average = 950.8
std deviation = 1420.0
does anyone have the stats on natlangs for I and II? I know that SOV/SVO are
about ~45% each, and VSO is ~10% for natlangs.
--
Garrett Jones
http://www.alkaline.org
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